Posted by Don on 01/03/06 13:42

Thanks! I'll chase it up.

BTW, that seems to be one of the problems. There are bits of
information here and there but no definitive document.

I'm a bit surprised about this because I would've though this to be a
standard which is in the public domain

Don.

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:10:41 GMT, Lance <lltbhill@link_earth.net>
wrote:

>This might help, but only parts of it are online (the author wants to
>sell the rest):
>http://www.dvd-replica.com/DVD/productinfo.php
>
>Lance
>*****
>
>Don thought carefully and wrote on 1/2/2006 6:54 PM:
>> I'm looking for definitive and current technical documentation (a
>> White Paper?) on DVD data structure/layout. Not just video files but
>> the underlying structures.
>>
>> Specifically:
>> - How much space does a file really occupy on a DVD i.e is each file
>> rounded up to a sector (2048 bytes) or an ECC block (32KB)?
>> - What's the layout of lead-in and lead-out?
>> - What's the layout of a TOC?
>> - How it all fits together... etc.
>>
>> I tried googling but get swamped with either superficial hardware info
>> or how to defeat various copy protection schemes... :-/
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>>
>> Don.

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